Showing posts with label workers' rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label workers' rights. Show all posts
Thursday, March 19, 2020

My Reflections as Minnesota and Vermont Declare Grocery Clerks Emergency Workers

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Hell yeah, now make it national https://t.co/XEad0wx53j — Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) March 19, 2020 The people putting their lives ...
Sunday, May 1, 2016

Protesters Vs. North Carolina Anti-Trans Hate Bill: "You Will Not Pit Black People and Gay People and Poor People Against Each Other"

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"You will not pit Black People and Gay People and Poor People against each other" - Reverend Barber #RepealHB2 pic.twitter.com/...
Friday, September 26, 2014

End-of-Week Commentary on Growing Gap Between Super-Rich Elite and Everyone Else: Erosion of Democratic Values, Democratic Societies

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More end-of-week tidbits: I'll leave it to you to spot the common theme of this batch.
Tuesday, September 2, 2014

In the News: Southern White Men and Unions, Legacy of Slavery and Regional Economic Inequality, and Knee Defenders

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Some recent news items that have caught my attention. I find some common threads in them. Do you?
Friday, May 16, 2014

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Cincinnati Contract for Catholic Teachers and "Tragic, Needless, Preventable Descent into Irrelevance for the Catholic Church"

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Charles J. Reid thinks that the draconian new employment contract the archdiocese of Cincinnati is imposing on its "minster-te...
Thursday, April 24, 2014

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Michael Sean Winters at National Catholic Reporter on "Gendergeist" Issues

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As  Michael Sean Winters reports that Harold Meyerson sees liberal leaders resurgent in many American cities, he adds:
Sunday, September 22, 2013

Pope Francis Strongly Asserts Workers' Rights and Attacks Economic System Based on a "God Called Money"

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"Where there is no work there is no dignity": Pope Francis takes direct aim at our globalized economic order http://t.co/0vIezH...
Saturday, September 21, 2013

Why Do Catholic Institutions Need Reform? Margaret Mary Vojtko

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Why do the Catholic church and the institutions it sponsors need reform, you ask? Read this story :
Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Politics of Revenge in Michigan (with Catholic Parallel in Wisconsin)

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Lisa Graves reads ALEC's broadside assault on Michigan workers through "right to work" legislation as revenge politics. ...
Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Nate Cohn on Flipping of Culture-War Calculus, Michael Sean Winters's Response: The Growing Quandary for Catholic Centrism

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Nate Cohn writes at The New Republic that "the old culture war calculus has flipped from favoring Republicans to Democrats....
Thursday, February 16, 2012

Gerald Beyer on Strange Bedfellows: U.S. Bishops' Religious Liberty Crusade and Neoliberalism

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There was one other valuable article of which I intended to take note in the posting I just uploaded, and I lost sight of it in t...
Friday, January 20, 2012

The Republican Party and the South: A Then-and-Now Perspective

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Wilson Bachelor (1827-1903), Arkansas Republican Leader In that posting taking note of Fr. Martin's recent call for renewed re...
Saturday, October 22, 2011

Pope Benedict to Issue Statement about Economic Justice: But Convincing Teaching Presumes Practicing

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Fr. Thomas Reese posted a statement yesterday at the Holy Post blog site saying that on Monday, Pope Benedict will issue a document abo...
Monday, September 6, 2010

Jan Troell's "Everlasting Moments": Struggle of Working-Class Women for Human Dignity

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Looking for a good movie to watch on this long holiday weekend?  I highly recommend Jan Troell's "Everlasting Moments," whi...
Saturday, September 4, 2010

Labor Day Reflection: Catholic Bishops Speak of Dignity of Workers, But Continue Call for "Right" to Discriminate

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  I think it's significant--and good--that National Catholic Reporter 's website is running its current story about the U.S. Catholi...
Thursday, December 11, 2008

Holy Stories of Indigenous Peoples: Telling Truth Beyond Control of the Big Men on Top

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Whispers in the Loggia had a thought-provoking meditation Tuesday about the story of Our Lady of Guadalupe, whose feast day is tomorrow. As...
Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Family Values: Remembering the Grandmother's House

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In a posting at Huffington Post this morning, Arianna Huffington makes points I made yesterday—our willingness to prescind from ethical anal...
Monday, September 22, 2008

Economic Crisis and Workers' Rights: Ethical Reflections

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*The current economic crisis positively begs for ethical analysis. And yet, if that analysis had been part and parcel of our approach to ec...